I have done a search and I can't find what I'm looking, so here it goes.

What I want to have on my screen is a black screen (an image file which is black) and a simple 2 line menu in white which gives me the option to choose Windoz or Linux.

I understand lilo and am able to configure it to give me the options and that works but what I don't want is the standard lilo menu, I want just a blank screen and I presume I would need to use a black image file to get the result.

what I need to know is how do I convert a "black.bmp" image file to do what I need it to do?
what commands do I use?
There is initrd which I don't quite understand how to use?

Thanx in advance

FBW

You want to change the lilo splash image.

This was a while ago, but - you can get rid of the image completely by removing the message=/boot/message line from lilo.conf. This should leave the black background.

Changing the image involves editing /boot/messages as a pcx file. I hope it is self-explanitory because I don't have an example to check with. But I found this:
http://www.13thfloor.at/old/Software...plash/Example/

Thanx for the info, I have found this before and it's too complex, I'm sure there is a simple way to convert a bmp file to whatever lilo requires by using a lilo command, I'm just not familiar in doing this.

I don't have GIMP and in order to install GIMP I have to install other programs of which require other ones too..... in other words it's a bit of a joke to install GIMP and all I want to do is to have a blach screen, there must be some lilo commands which convert a bmp file to the correct format?

cheers

There are no lilo commands to convert image files. This is not what lilo is for.

You need to use an image editor to save your bmp file as a pcx image. Simple as that. (Though I'm kinda surprised that simply removing the splash image dosn't give you a black screen.) What are you using to create the bitmap in the first place? It is unusual for a distribution not to include the GIMP out of the box. If you had edited your profile to include your distro, perhaps I would not have assumed this? So, which distro is this?

You can use the commandline utilities (bmp2ps and ps2pcx) to convert a bitmap to post-script, then from post-script to pcx. Or use the "convert" utility (man convert).